Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Job seekers face a new workplace in 2021 that reflects the harshness of the prior year. A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. These businesses outstripped mid-market firms when it comes to product launches over the past three years.

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Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 246

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli “A trend gains power over time, because it’s not merely part of a moment, it’s a tool, a connector that will become more valuable as other people commit to engaging in it.". — Seth Godin. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io So we’ve developed a list of the hottest trends. Social selling.

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. It’s nearly impossible to believe that will be true. A Lack of Training.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

The lyrics perfectly sum up the most common B2B lead generation mistakes: “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places, Lookin’ for love in too many faces, Searchin’ their eyes and lookin’ for traces, Of what I’m dreaming of.”. How’s that for attracting new clients in a highly competitive market?

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2021

To better understand what companies are spending money on, ZoomInfo surveyed over 400 CEOs, IT professionals, and marketers to understand patterns of near-term investment and cost cutting. Meanwhile,marketing departments find themselves challenged by how to effectively track ROI and generate more leads.

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Company ROI Survey Face-to-face 324

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 239

Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Collective[i] provides the most comprehensive solution on the market for companies seeking to optimize revenue using AI, connections, and collaboration. Heidi has seen the same thing and thinks that AI tools will help by taking data entry off salespeople’s plates. This interview is with Heidi Messer Co-Founder of Collective[i].

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Face-to-face CRM Forecasting Cold Calling 312

Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? Obstacles to Marketing Productivity. Even the most disciplined employees face productivity roadblocks. Even the most disciplined employees face productivity roadblocks. So, You Want to Improve Marketing Productivity?

Marketing 221

Marketing Campaigns ROI Scale 221

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Regardless of a company’s tech stack size, CRM systems are a staple for sales and marketing teams. For instance, your social media strategy that your marketing manager ran five years ago looks different today — with multiple social media specialists running more channels. Enterprise vs. SMB CRM Systems. Enterprise CRM System Features.

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Enterprise Enterprise Company CRM 290

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 13, 2020

They’re shaped by numerous factors, but the risks they face during the COVID-19 pandemic are significant. This roadmap should include the steps necessary for successful face-to-face meetings as well as the workarounds that can keep clients and salespeople completely separated. Determine the Where. Add Space In Offices.

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Face-to-face Outbound Collateral Conference 257

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

Lead Rank 211

Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 211

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker. There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 20, 2019

Author: Conner Burt The current labor market remains among the tightest in modern history. Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. Tight Times Yield Smart Strategies. According to the U.S. million job openings in the U.S. at the end of January.

Face-to-face 296

Face-to-face Smart Company Loyalty Benefit 296

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Author: Warren Fowler Sales teams and marketers focus on digital communication so much that they seem to forget the power of offline promotion channels. While online tools are often more convenient and practical than traditional marketing techniques, the fact remains that the latter usually perform better. Let’s take a look!

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Direct Mail How To Advertising Advertising 323

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Then Google REALLY started marketing! This week ask yourself: Are you following AT&T’s marketing efforts? Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? A few months ago, both AT&T, and then Google Fiber, dug up our street and lawns and bushes to install fiber Internet cable. Or Google Fibers?

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Google Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 222

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

So let’s get into how CLV plays into sales and marketing campaigns and how to calculate it. And this requires your sales and marketing teams to prioritize retention strategies over acquisition strategies. For customers that want to skip face-to-face purchase meetings, self-servicing saves a little of your resources and budget.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Revenue Customer 246

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. Pick out the right email automation tool. Technical Steps.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 277

The Pipeline

JANUARY 7, 2020

To willing and enterprising sales professionals, there is no shortage of tools to help sell. The economy seems to grow in line with the average sales, or is it the other way? And every app you add to the stack, claims to add 30% to your productivity and efficiency. Specifically, an interaction between two people. Data Is Blind.

Face-to-face 257

Face-to-face Lead Gen Hiring Google 257

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Author: Carson Conant The use of sales and marketing technologies has become a critical piece of the puzzle for organizations looking to increase their sales productivity. The contribution of sales tools, such as interactive calculators and value assessments, to overall revenue.

Face-to-face 243

Face-to-face Enterprise Enterprise Sales Qualified Lead 243

The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2020

Six years later, given the realities we face in the spring of 2020, let’s see how well leaders did? Six years later, given the realities we face in the spring of 2020, let’s see how well leaders did? I remember when clients started giving reps iPads, loaded them up with collateral, and turned to market and announced, “We are Digital!”

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Sage Real Estate Skype Collateral 288

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

That's all well and good when your sales force works in a traditional workplace – sharing office space and meeting face-to-face. The management team? While each component is essential, we need to look beyond individual elements to something all-encompassing that drives a company to achieve. It's the culture. . Here’s why.

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Inside Sales Revenue Lead Rank How To 348

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

One would think that eliminating face-to-face meetings would make it more difficult to build strong relationships with co-workers and customers. Author: LIZ PULICE The COVID-19 pandemic has caused sales organizations to adapt overnight to a new world of social distancing and digital-only collaboration. it’s just different.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 15, 2020

In the current climate, it’s a particularly peculiar time to be a salesperson; how can we pitch to customers who are most likely facing their own fair share of financial hardships? By removing impediments, prospects will see your product only as a tool for moving forward. Focus On Customer Relationships. Offer Flexible Terms.

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Loyalty Cancellation Churn Face-to-face 296

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

In fact, this is also felt in the accounting department, the marketing department, and everywhere else. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 223

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

They may get some leads out and set up some “demos or presentations,” but because they didn’t discover whether a prospect was truly a buyer and in the market at that time, their close rate is a disappointing 2 sales out of 10 full presentations…. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? Try it today.

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 212

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Choosing the best-fit revenue operations tools can dramatically enhance cross-departmental collaboration, enabling unified platforms where sales, marketing, and customer service teams are able to access and share critical data. To help with the vetting process, here are some suggestions of the top RevOps tools worth considering.

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Revenue Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

More roles, more tools, more input, more enablement, more you name it, yet the CSO Insight, it is not leading to more on a performance basis. By Tibor Shanto. Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. Segmenting. show a different reality.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 246

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Employers ought to consider the full effects of removing more face-to-face interaction from employees’ lives.”. sales and marketing at Intel, told Bloomberg. Company decision-makers seem open to the idea of remote work?—?at at least part time?—?but Social interaction has been declining in the U.S. for decades. Be transparent.

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Face-to-face Decision Maker Insurance Insurance 218

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But compliance isn’t just the domain of IT: marketing and sales teams now need to rethink their strategies when leveraging data from third-party vendors and customers. 1 priority. The Risks Posed by the Proposal Process. The Burden of Security Questionnaires.

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Proposal Ideal Customer Profile Vendor Face-to-face 251

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The rapid adoption of modern go-to-market (GTM) is creating immense opportunity for businesses in every sector and vertical. As companies in highly competitive industries look for new vectors to drive efficient and sustained growth, they’re increasingly turning to global markets. We took that feedback to heart and got to work.

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Data Ideal Customer Profile Policies Networking 261

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2021

Skill level of the sales rep is the most important thing; however, there are other variables like the type of lead—inbound versus outbound; the territory; existing client or new prospect; the marketing and/or branding of the company, etc., Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day?

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